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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
to call / to be called
HSK 2
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
original works / original text / original author
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
masterpiece
work / manual labor
to be abbreviated to / (followed by a verb) slightly
affected / artificial / to make / to manufacture
coroner (old)
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
first publication; maiden work
to change into / to turn into / to become
affected / artificial
interplanting
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche
deep plowing and careful cultivation
pretension / affectation / putting on artificial airs
to join forces / to give full cooperation
contemptible / disgusting
to regard as / to treat as
(old) spy; secret agent
to pretend / to feign
intensive farming
posthumous work
improvisation
sequel
(agriculture) to interplant
to feign / to pretend
to attempt / test run
(math.) to be written using the following notation / (accounting) to be recorded as (income, an expense etc)
to regard as / to view / to consider sth as / to treat as
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
to be called / to be known as
farming / crops
to change into / to turn into / to become
(slang) masterpiece
(agriculture) to switch to growing a different crop
painting; picture
cooperative education (Tw)
social work
rice cultivation
masonry workshop
noncooperation
(cinema) slow motion
mixed cropping (i.e. growing two crops together)
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), economic cooperation program between China and Vietnam
to compose / to write words to a tune
filmmaking
epileptic seizure
to serve as / to be a substitute for
signature move
representative work (of an author or artist)
to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb
to telecommute; to work remotely
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
to set aside for; to keep as
to cut a long story short / a brief treatment of a complicated subject / fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter
employment as sex worker / prostitution
remote operation
fake move or pass (sports) / feint
can be used for
to have sth made to order
heart attack; to have a heart attack
routine
all the trades / people of all trades and professions
also written as
to make preparations
(Tw) full-time work
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
reflex action
masterpiece / famous work
multithreading
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
panic attack

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